Scriptures/Quotes needed for the similarities of Mortality and Pre-Mortality

[MDalby]

Do any of you have any references that indicate the similarities between the conditions etc of mortality and our pre-mortal existence?

Thanks,

MD

[CV75]

Do any of you have any references that indicate the similarities between the conditions etc of mortality and our pre-mortal existence?

The war in heaven scriptures (Abraham, Revelation; "third part" scriptures in D&C 29:36 and Revelation 12), and the foreordination scriptures (Abraham, Alma); the creation as spiritual before physical scriptures.

[BCSpace]

Assuming we lived in a Celestial glory in the pre-mortal life how about D&C 130:2?

[MDalby]

This would be something that would be consistent.

All the spirits of men, while yet in the Eternal Presence, developed aptitudes, talents, capacities, and abilities of every sort, kind, and degree. During the long expanse of life which then was, an infinite variety of talents and abilities came into being. As the ages rolled, no two spirits remained alike. Mozart became a musician; Einstein centered his interest in mathematics; Michelangelo turned his attention to painting. . . . Abraham and Moses and all of the prophets sought and obtained the talent for spirituality. . . . When we pass from preexistence to mortality, we bring with us the traits and talents there developed. True, we forget what went before because we are here being tested, but the capacities and abilities that then were ours are yet resident within us. Mozart is still a musician; Einstein retains his mathematical abilities; Michelangelo his artistic talent; Abraham, Moses, and the prophets their spiritual talents and abilities. . . . And all men with their infinitely varied talents and personalities pick up the course of progression where they left it off when they left the heavenly realms.

(Elder Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah, 1:23, 25)